For the last five months I’ve been drawing a lot with charcoal. It was a totally strange medium for me at the beginning and it felt limiting because of it’s lack of bright colors. But over the time, as I started to feel more confident with a stick of a charcoal in my hand, I began to appreciate the nice texture, contrast and variety of techniques this medium offers.
It is truly a great and pleasant surprise to see my latest vector illustrations “Peacock at the sunset” chosen as vector of the week at Istockphoto! And even more great to receive all those nice reviews and comments about it! ;) Thank you all very much!
It’s about time I wrote a review of my long-term relationship with micro-stock illustration and especially with Istockphoto. I waited till the day of my 1000th file download to share my experience with you all! :)
My romantic vector illustration I finished some time ago and was saving it to show you just before St. Valentine’s Day… This illustration of a couple of sweet birds in love cuddling in their nest is another vector style experiment and also a pastel colors experiment.
I’m finally able to get back to my experiments in vector technique after a couple of pretty busy weeks of art lessons and freelance projects (I will tell about them a bit later.) Here is my latest vector illustration I created in Adobe Illustrator SC4 with the help of my Cintiq 12wx. Drawing and painting on it is really a wonderful experience!
It is time to show my progress in live drawing sessions I’ve been taking at Art Center in Groningen BK050 since last September. As I had no previous experience with live drawing before and no idea about charcoal as a drawing medium, I was really excited to try them all out. You can view my post about sketches from the first lesson on my old blog.
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